XPost: rec.audio.pro   
   From: hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Scott Dorsey  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Prediction: Apple's adoption of Intel processors brings us a major step   
   >>closer to the elimination of local operating systems. It further encourages   
   >>the development of thin clients, in which the software resides on the Web,   
   >>and the OS is little more than a Web browser.   
   >   
   >I think there are political problems with the adoption of this model,   
   >but personally I support it.  Then again, I am typing this into an ssh   
   >session with a shell server in New York where I keep all my files and   
   >have for fifteen years....   
   >--scott   
   >   
   Yes, I see you are posting from Panix.  Were you on Netcom in its   
   heyday.  I'm one of the 3000 who got cut adrift when Earthlink   
   discontinued Netcom shell service, and a good many of the Netcommies   
   went to Panix.   
      
   When I got cut loose, I ended up with Nyx.net in Denver, and got   
   involved in setting up their current system, and still do systems   
   administration on that site over the network (ssh access).  After   
   retirement, when I moved up here to Wyoming, I had some involvement   
   with a local communications company who were developing a high-speed   
   wireless internet service.  So I'm "my own ISP," more-or-less a   
   duplicate of what Panix and Nyx provide, but humming away about two   
   feet from me.   
      
   Now, down to the question of pro audio digital resources being   
   replaced by so-called "cloud computing."  I don't see that happening.   
   Pro audio is essentially a machine-control application, much more   
   similar in its characteristics to machine-tool and robotics control.   
   Audio operates in real time, and involves conversion between digital   
   and analogue.  That requires dedicated hardware.   
      
   Hank   
      
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